1 John 2:21

King James Version 1611 (Original)

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 1:12 : 12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
  • Jude 1:5 : 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
  • Prov 9:8-9 : 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
  • Rom 15:14-15 : 14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. 15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,
  • Prov 1:5 : 5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

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